Closing commissaries is wrong

3:33 PM,
Feb. 6, 2014

Written by

Ed Felsher
From the Community

The proposal being discussed in America's Defense Department to close military commissaries is an ill-advised and misguided action that should be killed immediately. To those who have not personally experienced military life, closing the commissaries may seem like no big deal. But, to those who have lived in the military world, the commissary is a mainstay of life.

The military commissary is not just another grocery store. It's an institution with a history going back to the days of America's frontier army. The commissary exists, like the Post Exchange (PX) and military hospitals, to ...